Jesus is the one man in history who really knew, with deep and true knowledge, the God we might call the God of Israel, the One he called the Father, the One he called the one true God, the Most High God, known from Psalms as the great king above all gods. The Gospel of John chapter 10 shows how Jesus taught about this Father and how he taught of himself as the Son. In John chapter 8, Jesus had taught that true sonship that really matters is not about biological descent but about living according to the standards of the one who is true father. When it comes to lies and murder these are traits not of God but of the devil. So seeking to be children worthy of heaven is not being like Satan but like the Most High, the Father. In John 10 Jesus used Psalm 82 which shows we should not really be looking up to gods of heaven who are sons of the Most High God by heavenly status alone, because the Psalm shows that in God’s eyes they fail to be the divine help needed and sought after by the poor. Jesus himself being a human in the flesh does not seek to be a son by that kind of divinity, but rather by living up to standards which God Himself has set for what a son of His should be, by virtue of using status for delivering justice to the poor and weak. Jesus fulfilled and ever will fulfil this. Jesus, by quoting Psalm 82, is holding up this standard of what a son of God should be like, but living it not as a higher-than-human, heavenly deity but as a human who is already mortal. The result of living such a life as a human—a life the Most High Father regards as worthy of a true Son of Him—is that despite dying, there is resurrection to eternal life. The gods who were sons of God by status but did not fulfil the standard God set them—of upholding the hope the weak were putting in them as gods—these God condemned to have a demise similar to the death of mortal humans. This is what Psalm 82, quoted by Jesus, was saying. Jesus showed a new way. No more failing and letting down those weak who need a saving god, but rather, as a human to live a life of saving the weak who came to him and called on him, and so in pleasing God this way, to endure death as a true human, then have God resurrect him to live forever by God’s power. This is the true Sonship God had been seeking. This is what pleased God such that He had set apart Jesus and sent him into the world as His beloved chosen Son, to anoint him for rule over all as the true Christ, raising him from the dead to become ultimately Lord over all. Glorious truth out of this is that, as John’s gospel clearly attests, those who believe in Jesus can by his teachings become this pleasing kind of son for God too, and likewise hope for resurrection to eternal life when Jesus returns. Jesus knows the Father so well, such that he has been able to live to please Him perfectly and be raised like this, that Jesus can impart to those who believe and follow his teachings this same knowledge of the Father necessary to live this life which becomes eternal by such resurrection. This is why not only belief in Jesus but discipleship in his teachings is the way taught in the gospel of John (for example in chapter 8). The gospels tell how God called Jesus His beloved Son, His chosen one, and instructed that Jesus be listened to. Chosen from among who? The way Jesus used Psalm 82 implies he was set apart and chosen from among all those called sons of God, including even heavenly beings called gods. Unlike these other gods and especially unlike the rival in heaven called the Devil, Jesus was given knowledge of God and wisdom from God to please God such that God is pleased to call Jesus His beloved Son, His Chosen One, and in love for the world, He sent Jesus into the world to impart this knowledge and wisdom to others as the light humans need for living worthy of being children of God. Jesus spoke of having been set apart by God and sent as the light into the world to so save the world. The light of Jesus is something we need to live by, not merely know about. As Jesus later revealed to Paul, it is not something that needs first conversion to Judaism and keeping of the Law of Moses, it is for all including not only those living by Judaic Law but those outside of it—for everyone who believes this message of God. Christ Jesus died for all so that all who believe can be purified from their sins whether or not they live by the Old Testament Law. It is for all. He rose from the dead because God found full satisfaction and good pleasure in his obedience and his upholding of the hopes of those who called on him. Living this way, believing his teachings and learning from them, we learn that with truthful speech when speaking to our neighbour, and without letting anger turn to murderous hatred, and without being unfaithful in marriage, we too can live as pleasing children of God if we believe and receive the Holy Spirit given by God to those who believe. The giving of the Holy Spirit is God’s way of showing the adoption of those who believe—adoption as children of God. Jesus taught we humans can succeed where devils and even gods, even the gods scripture calls the sons of the Father, sons of the Most High God, failed, if we believe in him and hold to his teachings as the one who knows the Father so well that by his teachings we can learn this Father’s standards and how to meet them, and so become children of God, with the prospect of eternal life, by knowing God in truth, and knowing Jesus Christ His Son.
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